Operating the M249 light machine gun Spc. Dawson Caruso, assigned to the 550th MCAS, 261st Med. BN, 44th Med. BDE, takes a defense security position at a situational training exercise lane at Fort ...

The M249 light machine gun also took on a longer name. It is now called the Cased Telescoped Light Machine Gun, or CT LMG. Phillips, who spoke during media day here, May 4, is a project engineer ...

The M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW, is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace and quick change ...

Currently, the M249 is the preferred light machine gun of the U.S. Army. It has been in service since 1984 as a lightweight alternative to the heavier M60 machine gun.

By the 1980s, U.S. ground forces started shopping around for a new light machine gun ... that has been mostly replaced by the Mk.46 and Mk.48 lightweight machine guns, also based on the M249.

Summary: The U.S. Army's Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program aims to replace the M4 carbine and M249 light machine gun with the XM7 rifle and XM250 automatic rifle, both chambered in the ...

The Army’s new weapon will look like a light machine gun, but will put M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank-style blasting power literally at the fingertips of U.S. soldiers.

There's one in 5.56-millimeter as an alternative to the U.S. Military's M249 Light Machine Gun and one in 7.62-millimeter (see above) as an alternative to the M240L Medium Machine Gun.